The Yak-40 demonstrator I-JAKA visited the grass field at Portsmouth on a sales trip to JF Airlines about Sep 1971 but I;ve never seen a photo
Here’s some Antonovs from 1975
Paris Show 1975
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At Schiphol 1975
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What a treat! Thank you.
Soviet Turboprops
It feels more appropriate to put these Il-18s in with the Soviet Jets
YU-AIB Yugoslav Govt LHR late 1970
DM-STO Interflug LHR 1974
SU-AOX Egyptair BEA Cargo ramp LHR 1972
SP-LSF LOT Polish LHR 10R 1972
LZ-BEV Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (in Cyrillic script) LHR 1974
Lockheed L188 Electras
They were fast ,too and reputedly handled like fighters….didn’t the US Navy wind one of their Orions up to nearly 500mph. When KLM realised their Electras were going to be competing with Caravelles they posted an article in their house magazine ‘De Wolkenrijder’ showing the block times hardly differed between the two types on short-medium routes…didn’t Lockheed look into relaunching a stretched Electra when the early 70s oil price hike occurred?
Not just the boom sticking out at the back by 2feet is it?
RR Dart power East Midlands Airport 1974
British Midland HP Herald and Viscount
British Midland Viscount and Argosy (Sagittair or ABC)
Bare metal Argosy returned from American register and Logair flights
TWA 747-131 take-off RWY28R LHR early 1974

Polish Government Yak-40 shot from the LTbus#82 entering the Cargo Tunnel 1974
SU-ARO Il-62 United Arab Airlines LHR1970 shot from Air-India earthmound
SU-ARO Il-62 Egyptair Le Bourget 1972
SU-AVU Il-62 Egyptair LHR 1972
A little Fokker…a VFW-Fokker
VFW-Fokker 614 at Paris Air Show 1975….a pretty plane but commercially unsuccessful
Well if a ‘Flying Dutchman’ like civilspotter couldn’t come up trumps with Fokkers, there would be something badly wrong!! :)….excellent stuff!
Very enjoyable pics!….Here’s a time-traveller shot from roughly where you were….click to the original on flickr at 3300pixels
Aeroporto de Lisboa, Portugal by Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, on Flickr
Garuda F-28 test flight at Schiphol 1971
Distant view from terminal roof terraces
Soviet Turboprops
Aeroflot An-12 Schiphol 1971
TAROM Il-18 lined up on LHR 28R
Less common Turboprops
Nord 260 LHR 1973, few produced
Martinair Electra PH-LLG Schiphol 1968, not many pics around of this
Did the Trident have the same width cabin as the 727? I remember a BEA Trident seeming really cramped…what seat pitch did they go down to in Economy?